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40768600 1949-50.Pdf UBRMY - VISHERIES AND OCEANS 240 SPARKS ST.; 8th FLOOR:Weir OTFAWA; OnA110, MUM& ,K1A. 0E6 CANADA Being the Eighty-Third Annual Fisheries Report of the Dominion To His Excellency Field-Marshal The Right Honourable Viscount Alexander of Tunis, K.G., G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., LL.D., A.D.C., Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada. May It Please Your Excellency: I have the honour herewith, for the information of Your Excellency and the Parliament of Canada, to present the Twentieth Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries, being the Eighty-Third Annual Fisheries Report. Respectfully submitted, Minister of Fisheries. 86158-2 To The Honourable Robert W. Mayhew, M.P., Minister of Fisheries, Ottawa, Ontario. Sir: I have the honour to submit herewith the Twentieth Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries, which covers the fiscal year 1949-50 and is the Eighty- Third Annual Report on the fisheries of Canada. Your obedient servant, Deputy Minister. CONTENTS Page THE DEPARTMENT AND ITS RESPONSIBILITIES 7 Administrative Responsibilities 8 Entry of Newfoundland 8 Development Programme 9 International Activities 10 Educational Programme 10 Economic Studies 11 CONSERVING AND DEVELOPING THE RESOURCE 12 Pacific Salmon 12 Atlantic Salmon 14 General Fish Culture 15 Provincial Co-operation on Conservation 17 Oyster and Clam Culture 18 Exploratory Work 19 Predator Control 20 Protection Services 21 INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES CONSERVATION 24 International Fisheries Commission 25 International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission 25 International Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Commission 26 International Whaling Commission 26 Provisional Fur Seal Agreement 27 INSPECTION OF FISH PRODUCTS 28 Fish Inspection Laboratories 29 SPECIAL AIDS TO INDUSTRY 32 Fisheries Prices Support Board 32 Economic Research 32 Capital Investment Aids 33 Educational Extension Grants 34 Fishing Bounty 34 FISHERIES RESEARCH 35 Biological Investigations 36 Technological Investigations 39 THE FISHING INDUSTRY 42 Analysis of Exports 42 British Columbia 43 The Inland Fishery 48 The Maritime Provinces 48 Newfoundland 50 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 55 THE DEPARTMENT AND ITS RESPONSIBILITIES HE Government of Canada is responsible for the conservation, develop- Tment and the general regulation of the nation's sea coast and inland fisheries. This responsibility, vested in the Minister of Fisheries, has increased substantially over the years with the expansion of the fisheries industry and the growing import- ance of the products as a source of high protein food for domestic and world consumption. To discharge these responsibilities in the best interests of the country as a whole the Parliament of Canada placed at the disposal of the Department of Fisheries of Canada in 1949-50 appropriations of $9,103,590. How these funds were used is found in detail in the financial statement published as an appendix to this report. With fisheries, as with other natural resources capable of self-perpetuation, conservation is of prime concern. This problem calls for much biological research and, accordingly, biological stations are maintained on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and inland, and are staffed with scientific personnel to provide all kinds of knowledge of fish populations and their movements. The Government of Canada has, in addition, many regulations designed to protect the fish, and these regulations are enforced by the Department's protection services which are made up of patrol fleets, fishery officers, wardens and guardians. Personnel of the protection services form the largest single part of the Department's staff. Along with the protection services go the development services, which look after stream clearance, design and construct fishways, maintain fish hatcheries and plant stocks. All of these services, of course, are aimed at providing food. This has to be of good quality, and so the Government has fish inspection legislation which is also administered by the Department of Fisheries. Such a perishable product as fish requires careful handling and, accordingly, there are fisheries experimental stations on both coasts searching for improvements in the handling, production and transportation of fish and its numerous by-products. To carry out these and other responsibilities there are three agencies under the Minister of Fisheries: 1. The Department of Fisheries proper, with headquarters at Ottawa and area offices under Chief Supervisors at Vancouver, Winnipeg, Halifax and St. John's. 2. The Fisheries Research Board of Canada, with headquarters at Ottawa and four biological stations, three experimental stations, and several small sub- stations across Canada. 3. The Fisheries Prices Support Board, with headquarters at Ottawa. This Board is concerned with the problems of fishermen in the event of falling prices. 7 8615S-3 The fishing industry of Canada takes from the sea and the inland waters nearly two billion pounds of fish each year. Approximately one-third is produced by Newfoundland, another third by the Maritimes and Quebec, and the -remainder by the inland provinces and British Columbia. The marketed value of the fisheries of all Canada in 1949-50 amounted to approximately $166 million—a very decided increase over the «marketed value of the fisheries (exclusive of Newfoundland) just ten years ago when it was êstimated at only'slightly more than $40 million. The wide dispersion of the industry and the fundamental necessity of conserving for the good of all a bountiful natural heritage of great economic value, account for the wide distribution of the Federal fisheries services. Administrative Responsibilities Making fisheries regulations is one thing; administering the fisheries is another. Although the British North America Act gave full legislative responsibility for the regulation of fisheries to the Government of Canada, in the years following Confeder- ation certain administrative responsibilities were delegated to the provinces in varying degrees. Consequently, while all fishery regulations are made at Ottawa, the job of administration (enforcing the laws and regulations, inspecting fish products, issuing licences, etc.) is carried out in some cases by federal officers and in others by provincial officers, according to the administrative arrangements made with the different provinces. There is no duplication of staffs in any province. Specifically, all tidal or sea fisheries, except those of Quebec, are administered by the Department of Fisheries of Canada, but some of the freshwater or non-tidal fisÉeries are administered by the provincial departments. In the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, freshwater fisheries are all federally administered. Entry of Newfoundland The entry of Newfoundland into Confederation on March 31, 1949, brought new responsibilities to the Department and had an important effect on the sta.tus of the Commercial fisheries in Canada's economy. Under the terms of Union, and by special constitutional arrangement, the Department extended its services to the new Province. Certain Federal statutes, under which the Department functions, were proclaimed in force in Newfoundland. These were the Department of Fisheries Act, the Fisheries Research Board Act, the Fisheries Prices Support Act, the Canadian Fishermen's Loan Act and the Deep Sea Fisheries Act. As soon as possible following amendment to fit Newfoundland conditions, the following Acts will come into effect in the new Province: the Fisheries Act, 1932, the Fish Inspection Act, the Meat and Canned Foods Act (as it relates to fish canning), and the Customs and Fisheries Protection Act. The Department appointed a Chief Supervisor for the Newfoundland fisheries and established an administrative division at headquarters in Ottawa, headed by a Director. Prior to Confederation, a controlled system of fish marketing was operating in Newfoundland under the Newfoundland Fisheries Board. Under the Terms of Union it was arranged that the powers of this Board, insofar as they relate to 8 the control over the export marketing of salted fish, would be continued for a period of five years after Union, unless sooner revoked by Parliament with the consent of the Provincial Government of Newfoundland. While the Board continued to operate along established lines, it became responsible to the Government of Canada, which in turn assumed the cost of the Board's operations. Development Programme • In December, 1949, the Government announced a development programme applicable to the fisheries throughout Canada. This programme was based on plans to increase scientific research and facilitate practical application of research findings; to extend conservation and development activities through planned biological- engineering projects; to institute economic studies; to expand inspection services and encourage greater consumption in Canada of fish products; to study means of extending capital assistance for industrial expansion, and to develop a greater under- standing of the importance of the resource and the industry in the social and economic life of the country. A study of methods to develop export markets, as well as to encourage international policies designed to protect the fishery resource, were to be included in the programme. The programme in general was to be applied as quickly as additional reorganization of the Department could be achieved and suitable trained personnel could be brought into the service. The programme itself was
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